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NBK Capital Partners – an alternative investments firm that advises on providing flexible growth capital to mid-sized companies in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey – has advised on the [...]

The sale of 51% of the shares representing the capital stock of Transportes Aéreos de Cabo Verde (TACV) to Loftleidir Cabo Verde will take place on Friday, 1 March, the Cape Verdean government [...]

Fund manager Vunani said on Tuesday its subsidiary Telos had concluded a deal to acquire 67 percent of Metropolitan Life Swaziland for R55 million, subject to regulatory approval. The remaining [...]

Egyptian online grocery service GoodsMart has secures additional funding from Algebra Ventures as it prepares to raises its Series B round on the back of strong growth. GoodsMart allows customers [...]

Blue Label Telecoms said on Friday a consortium had agreed to take a minority stake in South Africa’s third largest mobile carrier Cell C, of which it owns 45 percent. The company said that [...]

The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) has provided initial financing to SunFunder’s $85m Solar Energy Transformation Fund, which supports businesses providing solar solutions to some [...]

Private Property South Africa (Pty) Limited has acquired the Property Buyer Show, South Africa’s premier property expo, from media company Spintelligent. The transaction became effective on 1 [...]

Solar-generation microleasing platform Sun Exchange on Tuesday announced that it had signed an agreement with Johannesburg-based boutique clean energy fund manager Decentral Energy, said Sun [...]

CDG Capital Private Equity, the private equity firm focused on growth investments for SMEs in Morocco, announced an investment in SCE Chemicals, a leading company manufacturing specialty [...]

Finnfund, a Finnish development finance company, has provided a €2.5m secured loan to Africado, a Tanzanian avocado producer. “We want to support the growth of Africado as well as strengthen the [...]

South African tech startup RapidDeploy, whose cloud-based software enables public safety officials to reduce emergency response times and improve situational awareness, has raised $12 million [...]

Aker plans to invite other investors into its oil project in Ghana, either through an initial public offering for Aker Energy or another transaction, CEO Oyvind Eriksen said at a quarterly [...]

Investisseurs & Partenaires, has announced the intermediate closing of its fund I&P Afrique Entrepreneurs 2 (IPAE 2), bringing the fund’s investment capacity to €75m. I&P Afrique [...]

The Sun Exchange, a South African blockchain-based solar micro-leasing marketplace, has concluded an initial coin offering, raising more than $1 million. The ICO, which ended on Dec. 31, only [...]